Om anbefalinger til Kommissionens rullende regelforenklingsprogram.

Legislation

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 571/88 of 29 February 1988

Reason for proposing

According to the Regulation farm structure surveys are to be conducted in 2003, 2005 and 2007. However, for almost all users it would be sufficient to describe the structure of the agricultural sector every third year, and for this reason it is proposed to conduct two surveys only in the years 2003 and 2006.

Legislation

Directive 95/64

Reason for proposing

The Council Directive on statistical returns in respect of carriage of goods and passengers by sea was adopted in 1995. These statistics account for the smallest user requirements among the statistics on transport, and from a Danish point of view the compilation of the statistics can be discontinued.

Legislation

Regulation 58/97

Reason for proposing

This Regulation consists of an important general annex covering all economic activities and some annexes covering specific activities. The specific annexes demand very specific statistics for enterprises within manufacturing, construction and trade. Some of these specific statistics ought to be abandoned. This applies, e.g. to the statistics on 'payments for long-term rental and operational leasing of goods' and 'purchases of energy products' for enterprises within manufacturing. For enterprises within construction the same statistics as well as statistics on 'income from subcontracting' should be removed, and for enterprises within trade the statistics on 'category of sales space for retail stores engaged in retail trade' and 'number of fixed market stands and/or stalls' are examples of statistics that should also be removed.

Legislation

Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1901/2000 laying down certain provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91

Reason for proposing

The Commission (Eurostat) is at the moment working with a project to revise the Intrastat system by 2005, including a rewriting of the Regulation. The main objective is to simplify the Regulation and to change its impact with reference to the statistical needs of the Community. A draft for a new Regulation is to be presented in March 2003 at a meeting in the Committee on Statistics Relating to the Trade of Goods Between Member States. In this regard, several suggestions have been put forward, but it is still to soon to predict the outcome. Nevertheless, attention has been focused on the question of statistical thresholds. Different thresholds are used in Intratstat, which exclude minor companies from reporting and enable some transactions to be reported on a less detailed basis. A suggestion could be to increase one or more of the thresholds, taking into consideration the continued assurance of the quality of the external trade figures (both on an aggregate and detailed level).

Legislation

Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1901/2000 laying down certain provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91

Reason for proposing

The combined nomenclature (concerning commodities) defines the data to be reported for each commodity, including data on the quantity being traded. For many commodities two units must be reported; the main unit being net mass in kilograms and a supplementary unit (e.g. litre, pieces, etc.). As a result of earlier SLIM-studies, a simplification was introduced in Intrastat. A list of commodities was established. For the commodities included in the list, only a supplementary unit of quantity is to be reported and not the main unit being net mass in kilograms. A suggestion could be to carry out a study in order to assess further needs for excluding quantity information, although for commodities only where both units of quantity data are to be reported today.

Legislation

Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1901/2000 laying down certain provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3330/91

Reason for proposing

On earlier occasions the introduction of a one-flow system in Intrastat has been suggested (in short, the system is based on the principle that each Member State involved only collects data on either import or export and consequently receives data on the opposite trade flow on the basis of data collected by the other Member States). In November 1999 the item was on the agenda at the 35th meeting in the Statistical Program Committee. Denmark still supports the idea of introducing a one-flow system, but several conditions have to be fulfilled:

• The quality of the resulting statistics for each individual Member State (i.e. both flows) must at least be maintained.
• Timeliness in connection with the collection and dissemination of data has to be guaranteed and for some Member States must be improved significantly compared with the situation today.
• The inclusion of new Member States in the European Union must be taken into account in respect of the above-mentioned conditions.

Legislation

Directive 89/391

Reason for proposing

Simplification deemed appropriate, burden on business

Legislation

Regulation 1760/2000 (Parliament and Council regulation) and Regulation 1825/2000 (Commission regulation)

Reason for proposing

The registration of out and incoming meat in the retail trade, where there is no kind of cutting and repacking of meat seems needless. The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration has already mentioned the proposal for the Commission earlier.

Legislation

97/C 205/05, paragraph 9

Reason for proposing

Extension of period from 5 to 10 years

Legislation

Council Directive 92/12/EEC

Council Directive 92/83/EEC

Council Directive 95/59/EC of

Sixth Council Directive 77/388/EEC

Reason for proposing

Simplification on the differences of rules in the Member States

Legislation

Directive 77/388

Reason for proposing